Is using the Analysis Board good sportsmanship?
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Jul 14, 2018
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#22
DeirdreSkye wrote:
Heather_Stephens wrote:
How is using the analysis board different from playing out variations on a real chess set? If is recommending better moves then I think that is cheating.
You have no idea what analysis board is.
Analysis board doesn't recommend anything. It stays silent even when you are doing atrocities!
It's like having a real chessboard and trying moves on it instead of trying to calculate on your mind without moving the pieces.
Analysis board is what defines(always defined) correspondence chess. Players have the right to analyze unlimited moves and unlimited lines. Correspondence chess is not about calculation, it's about evaluation and understanding. That is why authors, in very complicated lines sometimes say:
"This is for correspondence chess only"
It implies that calculating all the complications without moving the pieces on an analysis board , is practically impossible.
Thank you for agreeing with me, in such a nasty manner. Having a bad day?
Jul 14, 2018
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#23
Preggo_Basashi wrote:
Heather_Stephens wrote:
How is using the analysis board different from playing out variations on a real chess set? If is recommending better moves then I think that is cheating.
You're implying playing out variations on a real chess set involves the set recommending better moves.
This topic has so many layers of crazy.
(I guess the two sentences are addressing two different ideas, one that the analysis board is mundane, and the other that you suspect blatant cheating might be against the rules, but even then...)
Um, no I'm not.
Jul 14, 2018
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#24
ctimes wrote:
Hi Chess Lovers!
Is the chess.com analysis board a legitimate way to analyze a game in progress?
Is the chess.com analysis board a legitimate way to analyze a game in progress?
It is allowed in Daily (Correspondence) chess games. Using a real board and pieces has always been part of correspondence chess, along with books, databases, and being able to move the pieces around. You cannot use engines, or endgame table bases.
To be fair, this is quite confusing for many folks. We have a good explanation in this forum, over a number of posts. Possibly some of this will find its way into the support pages.
If it's this confusing for people. Chess.com might think about explicitly stating the rules. Maybe available to you when you're playing Daily Chess. Another tab maybe.
Jul 15, 2018
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#27
PatternRecognition wrote:
If it's this confusing for people. Chess.com might think about explicitly stating the rules. Maybe available to you when you're playing Daily Chess. Another tab maybe.
These days they do, on your first game it says how it's different from live chess and gives a list of what's ok and what's not ok.
https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess They have all the rules here except for daily chess. It would be a nice reference.
Jul 18, 2018
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#29
There seems to be some confusion over what is a legitimate use of the 'Analysis Board'. As DeirdreSkye pointed out, the Chess.com Analysis Board available for on-going 'Daily' games (the 'correspondence games' of my youth) is entirely appropriate and not cheating. It is one of the best ways to improve your visualization skill (by making the moves in your head, then checking them out on a board, either real or online). What is not permitted (in Daily or Live games) is using a 'chess engine' (such as 'Stockfish') to select moves for you! That IS cheating! The idea of 'cheating' demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the very idea 'personal competition'.
Also permitted in 'Daily' games is the use of an 'opening database' or other 'book' (MCO, ECO, etc.), and reviewing 'master games' to help learn an opening. Do not confuse the Chess.com 'Analysis Board' with the 'chess engine' Stockfish, whose availability is only for the purpose of 'post-game' analysis (an aid for your more limited 'human analysis board') and study.